OBLITERATION { a poem }

8/12/23 in Texas

Photo by Abolfazl Ranjbar on Unsplash

Obliteration.

God rang the gong.

Everyone else disintegrated

You shared your song.

Fires roar in the shadows.

Will you let it free?

I wanted you to be you.

I wanted me to be me.

Tempered in a box.

Held at a distance.

Face me. We’ve only an instance.

Obliteration. Obliteration.

Steel silence cuffed me into the mud.

I hate chains. …